Facing the Age Wave
Published on 30. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-8179-9482-2 (ISBN)
Description
Four distinguished scholars detail the substantial problems of large-scale early retirement, inadequate personal saving for retirement, heavy taxation of pensions, and the crisis of looming health care costs. They offer principles that need to be followed if our nation is to adapt gracefully to the coming age wave.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stanford
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8179-9482-2 (9780817994822)
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David A. Wise is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he has taught since 1973. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is the area director for the Economics of Aging and the Health Economics Programs.